Court Rules in Favor of Petitioner for Service Tax Refund Despite Procedural Error in Filing to Wrong Entity.

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....Refund claim of service tax - Benefit of exemption with retrospective effect - lease premium - time limitation - Request for refund made to wrong forum (service provider / PIPDIC ) initially and not to be service tax department - the petitioner has filed the claim before PIPDIC which is altogether a different entity. However, the mere fact that the entity approached was PIPDIC and not an officer of the Department does not, in the light of the reasoning adduced above, persuade me to take a view adverse to the petitioner as I believe that such a conclusion would be hyper-technical. - HC....